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This was a great song!.. I think they first relased a slightly different version as a single tho.. We supported them at Rafters in Manchester at the end of 1980.. they were a really nice bunch of guys as I recall. I even got a good review as a bass player in the papers on that occasion....how often does the bass player get a mention !.. naturally I was mercilessly mocked by all our mates after that. Wonder what became of the Comsat Angels...

They have a tatty old plastic leyland mini grille for ten grand too, plus I think another item, their other stuff is cheapo "clear out" bits, so I think its an error somehow ! ..... But always fun to see what turns up on ebay for mad money

Haven't seen one of those in a fair old while !.... I still say you need to go and play a Rick or two somewhere, you'll always be wondering otherwise..

That has to be a mistake when he's done the listing, he probably meant to type in £10. Someone should message him !

The Damned always did a v.good one on the occasions I've seen them, this would've been in the "Roxy" era when Capt S. was still on bass..

Certainly true in my case !

Check out the sparkly matching shirts, and the guy on bass playing a RH Precision left handed , upside down.. Respect !

You definitely had to 'be there'.. ! 👍

I saw Tom Waites in Manchester, either late 1980 or (more likely) 1981. That sticks in my mind as an excellent show...

Does that not wobble about though ?

I made a stand for a guitar, so you could walk up to it, with a bass still round your neck, play a bit, then walk away and continue with bass ( it was some jolly 'modern' combo I was involved with at the time) The guitar was held in a kind of G clamp, suitably padded with rubber to protect it, to a point. This was atop a mad (max?) looking stand I'd welded together..The guitar was an SG so had nice flat surfaces front and back to clamp on to....

I know!.. Think it was 2d when I used to go down the road with my gran and phone, you had to press button A or B then tho....

Ten "New Pence".... aka, two bob..

Indeed....I actually can't imagine any of the young from nowadays even existing in "our" world back then ! .....remember if you wanted to phone your mate? ..you had to walk down the road, find a phone box, dial the number, and ( when the pips went) put 10p in.. always assuming your mate's mum had a phone at home ! ....if I could, I'd jump right back there in a heartbeat...

Very unlikely in anything resembling the way it was back then.. Plus in the late 70s early 80s squats were a popular option for music types with zero money, that whole 'thing' no doubt doesn't exist anymore..

What Marvin says above resonates with me.. In the punk /post punk era most of the people in bands that I knew, including myself, were on the dole, and living in squats..I seem to recall a sum of £13.75 a week as the basic of the time ( a packet of fags was prob circa 20p tho, so it's all relative ! ) My dear old mum would occasionally bung me a few quid at a pinch too... but how cool would it have been to have had wealthy indulgent parents, the nearest to that I knew of was a mate who's dad gave him a couple of hundred ( a tidy sum then) so he and his band could do a "proper" 8 track demo !

Now for something completely different.!

Castle Donnington and a barrage of bottles of p!ss are an inseparable tradition..

It has surprised me in the past how clueless guitarists can be , one guy I played with years ago was brilliant on guitar, could play pretty much anything straight off, but when he tried to put some bass on the same stuff , it was like a little kid having a go, completely incoherent would be the best word !

We need to see the pics of you in those man ! Course to go with it you need the massive 'fro.. with the comb stuck in it !! Those were the days

^.. Great track & footage, love his suit too !..and I remember those shoes very well..

You gots to show us pics of that..